Key Roles and Responsibilities
- Ensure that the business heads and relevant staff understand and accept their operational risk management responsibilities.
- Periodically assess the country operational risk profile to maintain alignment with the risk appetite. Redesign controls as required in response to internal and external factors
- Provide a central contact point and oversight over all controls required to effectively manage operational risk within the country that arises from the end to end processes
- Challenge the completeness of risk identification, monitoring and assessment of the corresponding control activities required within the end to end processes to identify and remediate any significant deficiencies.
- Ensure compliance with Operational Risk policy & procedures.
- Validate and challenge the first line risk identification and assessment of gross and residual risks arising within the end to end processes.
- Review and approve risk record templates for acceptance.
- Ascertain and confirm that country risk registers, key risk indicators, key control indicators, and control sample testing are effectively implemented.
- Periodically review operational risk assessments to ensure these appropriately reflect changes in environment, mitigating controls and the progress of treatment plans
- Approve the classification and accurate reporting of operational risk losses.
- Support the preparation and ensure the delivery of root cause analysis for Unsatisfactory Operational Risk event as per procedure.
- Inform the development of country business plans, exercising appropriate focus on the implementation of robust operating environments, within risk appetite, to support business aspirations
Qualifications and Skills
- Bachelor degree, preferably in Mathematics and Computer Science.
- Strong skills in Bank's operations particularly Operational Risk and Information Technology preferable.
- Strong Analytical Skill
- High Attention to details
- Fluently Speaking / Writing in English
- Experience in Operational Risk, Operations, Compliance and Technology preferable